A gas-holder II

Gasklockan 2 (1)

 

In my last blog entry, I used the word “gas-holder”. A few readers have urged me to clarify my imagery. In Stockholm we have a few old buildings housing gas-holders. To the left you see two of them made out of bricks. They are about 30 meters high.

My poem refers to an old dream and in that dream I see myself as a child inside one of them building made out of bricks. I find myself inside the hollow space of such a building. To my surprise this hollow space exists in the middle of a large homogenous block of large apartement houses. This block is about 400 by 400 meters. In the real world one of them apartment houses holds the flat rented by my parents. Each house contains about 30 such flats. This imagery is dated 1942-1954.

That is the base for my dream and I want to be truthful to my dream. Why my subconscious mind places this gas-holder in my dream is beyond me. I have a hard time not to allow my engineering mind to create interpretations.

 

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